from 6/21: [10:59]GregBenefits of being able to turn off images include but are not limited to: (a) helping users avoid distraction; (b) increasing the amount of information that can be displayed at one time, including for people who do not make use of the images due to visual impairments, people who want to reduce the amount of scrolling, people who need to keep information on the screen...

Although the content of web pages is technically already capable of "automated processing", and has been since the inception of the web, such processing is difficult because the traditional markup tags used to display information on the web do not describe what the information means.[2] Microformats can bridge this gap by attaching semantics, and thereby obviate other, more complicated,...

18:37:45 [Greg]

...methods of automated processing, such as natural language processing or screen scraping.

18:37:56 [jallan]

sh: will look into it further, to see if semantics can be related to a11y.